Posted on January 12, 2010 - by Createwealth8888

The Truth About Retail Investors

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Retail investors are profoundly different from institutional investors like mutual, pension, endowment funds or even Warren Buffet.

1. Source Of Investing Capital

Retail investors, where does the source of investing capital come from? Some of you may have rich parents to provide you with big sum of investing capital so it is not a problem; but for most of us, our investing capital come from saving from our hard-earned money. Every dollar saved for investment means a dollar less to spend on other “luxuries”.

Someone even goes to the extreme to save on his daily dose of 70 cents coffee by making his own cup of coffee at home so that he can save every cent available for his investment.

The investing capital of these institutional investors are provided by other investors and not from saving from their hard earned money. This is world apart!

Have you finally realize the significance and emotion attached to our investing capital? In other word, for retail investors it represents our blood and sweat, and losing this investing capital may drive some of us into depression and even having the thought of killing ourselves for being so foolish.

We know that we cannot afford to fail; neither can we be overly defensive and manage to achieve meagre return on our investment and fail to build up sufficient wealth for retirement draw down. Read more…

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